Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Medical School several new instructors have been appointed during 1891-92. The Dean in his report calls attention to the fact that the proportion of college bred men entering the Medical School has decreased very much since 1886. It is not easy to understand the reason of this change but it is probable that the prolongation of the period of professional study has necessarily led to a corresponding shortening of the time heretofore allotted to college training...
...printed and apparently covering everything of interest in the university. Judging from its past work it will aim to take an independent position in regard to college matters, which is what every college paper should do provided that it do so fair-mindedly and not hastily. There is every reason to expect, therefore, that the University News will soon rank among the best of the college papers...
...make a part of the exhibit of the University at the World's Fair, will be taken by the Camera Club. As the work of a college organization it will add an additional interest to this part of the exhibit. Under the charge of the club there is no reason why this work should not be well done, for the club has already accomplished some of the best work of any amateur or even professional organization. It is to be hoped that every opportunity will be given the club to take these photographs...
...number of entries for the B. A. A. games is the largest that Harvard has ever had and there is every reason to expect that our representatives will make an excellent showing there. It is gratifying to see what a large body of men are training for the Mott Haven team and how promising some of the material is. These games of the B. A. A. are always interesting as an indication of what Harvard may expect to do in the intercollegiate games...
...expressing himself strongly in favor of the effort to exclude all professional element from college sports and denying that Yale's action was taken with intent of "freezing out" the University of Pennsylvania, he does not commit himself as favoring the new rule. He argues with more or less reason that it is a narrow policy to exclude men in the professional school from participating in athletic contests and unjust to the honest student. He admits that with the membership of teams limited to university undergraduates, "the future of honest, pure sport would be assured," but at the same time...